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Public Petitions Committee PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE Tuesday 9 May 2000 (Afternoon) £5.00 Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 2000. Applications for reproduction should be made in writing to the Copyright Unit, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BQ Fax 01603 723000, which is administering the copyright on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Produced and published in Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body by The Stationery Office Ltd. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office is independent of and separate from the company now trading as The Stationery Office Ltd, which is responsible for printing and publishing Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body publications. CONTENTS Tuesday 9 May 2000 Col. NEW PETITIONS..................................................................................................................................... 398 CURRENT PETITIONS .............................................................................................................................. 422 CONVENER’S REPORT ............................................................................................................................ 431 PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE 8th Meeting 2000, Session 1 CONVENER *Mr John McAllion (Dundee East) (Lab) DEPU TY CONVENER Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab) COMMI TTEE MEMBERS *Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab) *Christine Grahame (South of Scotland) (SNP) *John Scott (Ayr) (Con) Mrs Margaret Smith (Edinburgh West) (LD) *Ms Sandra White (Glasgow ) (SNP) *attended WITNESSES Mr Robert Durw ard (British Aggregates Association) Mr John McMillan Mr John R D Stew art Mr William Watson (Haddington and District Community Council) Sharon Wright (Child Poverty Action Group) SENIOR ASSISTANT CLERK Steve Farrell ASSISTANT CLERK Jane Sutherland LOC ATION Committee Room 3 397 9 MAY 2000 398 Scottish Parliament New Petitions Public Petitions Committee The Convener: The first petition, PE176, is from Mr McMillan and deals with the investigation of Tuesday 9 May 2000 police complaints. Mr McMillan is here to address the committee. (Afternoon) Mr John McMillan: The Scottish justice system [THE CONVENER opened the meeting at 14:07] is considered throughout the world as second to none to such an extent that the Lockerbie trial is The Convener (Mr John McAllion): Welcome being conducted along Scottish legal lines. to the eighth meeting of the Public Petitions Unfortunately, I am here today to tell the Committee. We have apologies from Pauline committee that I am heading for Strasbourg with a McNeill, the deputy convener. She has been legal problem about the police complaints delayed on constituency business and, although department. she will try to be here in time, she does not think I made a complaint to the police about the police that she will be able to make it. and, to cut a long story short, although members I remind members that there will be a private have all the details in front of them, I received a session at the end of the meeting to discuss the letter stating that they were taking no further procedure for handling petitions by the Parliament. action, and I was amazed at that. I then found that We have a busy agenda, with 12 new petitions, there is nowhere I can go once those people have five speakers on six of those petitions and a made that decision, so it is an inside circle. I wrote number of responses to petitions that we have to the Minister for Justice and was referred back to already dealt with as well as the paper at the end the Crown. I wrote to the Lord Advocate and was of the meeting. I therefore urge members to be referred back to the Crown. I could not get outside brief and to the point. When it comes to the part that circle. where we question petitioners, let us have My complaint has been looked at by some pretty questions rather than comments. As the clerk has sensible people, who feel that it should have gone pointed out, some of the petitioners who spoke to further, but there is nowhere else in Scotland that I us before took 20 minutes each. We will have a can take it. There is no body to which I can say very long afternoon if we continue to behave in what I think and what they think, and where that fashion, so let us get on with our business somebody can decide in a committee such as this right away. whether they believe that I have a case. I now have to make a private prosecution to sue the chief constable and go to Strasbourg. That is my statement. I have nowhere to go and I would like there to be a body that could be approached by people such as myself. I am probably the only person in this room who has ever made a complaint against the police. It is a rare thing, so it must be seen to be done properly. The Convener: Thank you, Mr McMillan. Do committee members have any questions? Ms Sandra White (Glasgow) (SNP): I understand from the letters that you have provided that, unlike English procedures, statements taken from witnesses in Scottish procedures are not normally signed by the witness. Do you believe that, if the Scottish system was changed to be similar to the English system and if the witness had to sign, it would make a vast improvement? Mr McMillan: I think that it is essential that a statement made by a complainer is signed and that a face-to-face meeting with the procurator fiscal is conducted to verify the statement and the signature. That would be a built-in safety clause. The documents that I have provided also state that 399 9 MAY 2000 400 the complaint should be made directly to the The prosecution acts on behalf of us, the procurator fiscal and then referred to the police, people. If there is a feeling that that is not the case rather than the other way round. I made my or that the police should not be investigating statement in what I could describe as a broom themselves—that is a common view, although I cupboard in Fettes police station. I did not feel as make no comment as to whether it is right—the if I was being taken seriously, and I felt Justice and Home Affairs Committee could intimidated. examine that. The Convener: Are you asking for an Mr McMillan: It is just that the petition—my independent complaints investigation body to be complaint—does not seem to be going anywhere set up? in Scotland. It has been nowhere, and it is going nowhere. Mr McMillan: I want a situation in which, when the procurator fiscal sends a letter stating that no The Convener: Okay. We have no further further action will be taken in a complaint against questions, but you can be assured that the the police, there is a higher authority. Scottish Parliament is still, relatively speaking, in its infancy. The reason why your petition appears The Convener: Do you think that there should to be going nowhere is that the Parliament has not be a system for appealing against the decision of fully— the complaints procedures? Mr McMillan: I was not talking about you. Mr McMillan: Yes. It should be outside the legal system—outside the police’s and the Crown’s The Convener: As Christine Grahame pointed grasp and independent. out, the procedures for complaints against the police are under review. They will also be The Convener: It would be an independent reviewed by the Parliament. As part of that review, appeal system to which individuals such as you I am sure that we shall consider your petition. could turn if a decision went against you. Thank you for coming along and presenting your Mr McMillan: That is right. I do not think that it petition. We will now discuss, among ourselves, would be a very busy committee, but every now how to deal with it. and then it might be called upon to act. It could be that its members might agree with the police and Mr McMillan: That is fine. the Crown, in which case the complainant would have to accept that ruling. However, in the present 14:15 situation, it is as if the father is investigating the son. The Convener: The recommendation is that we pass the petition to the Justice and Home Affairs The Convener: The correspondence that Committee for further consideration. I suggest that accompanies your petition suggests that the chief we recommend to that committee that it do that as inspector of constabulary and the Crown Office part of its consideration of the Crown Office and are currently reviewing the police complaints inspectorate reviews. procedure. Would you expect those reviews to address the issue that your petition raises? Christine Grahame: Are you aware of the Justice and Home Affairs Committee’s agenda? Mr McMillan: Look at who is reviewing it. As you have just said, they are reviewing themselves. The Convener: I imagine that the committee The minute you name those parties, I no longer would do as I have just suggested anyway. take the process seriously. I want a body that is Christine Grahame: Yes, but rather than say completely independent. that we are sending the petition to the Justice and Christine Grahame (South of Scotland ) Home Affairs Committee for further considerati on, (SNP): I understand that investigations are being we should recommend that the committee note it made into the way in which complaints against the pro tem and consider it further at the appropriate police are handled at the moment. I speak as a time, when the wider issue is on its agenda. member of the Justice and Home Affairs The Convener: That seems fair. Committee and I am sure that that committee will consider the procedures and make a report to the Helen Eadie (Dunfermline East) (Lab): W e Parliament when the matter arises.
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